Crew members use a black shade to block the Press-Telegram exit and stop me from taking pictures during a scene from the show Prison Break filming at Arco Center in Long Beach. Little did the crew know that they were filming right in front of the newspaper offices. The location manager said he didn’t want me taking pictures because I might spoil the plot.

The Press-Telegram has a long standing feature in the print edition called Roving Reader. Subscribers are asked to submit photos of themselves in exotic places holding a copy of the P-T. I’m sure this was harder years ago when the paper was thicker, but these days travelers can just folder it up and stick it in their pocket.

Opera singer Amber Mercomes will be performing June 29 at the Museum of Latin American Art in a show featuring Latin and African-American music. She then will hit the road for Rome, where she will peform in the lead role in an opera to be performed at a festival.